Please Help! New Songbook Survey from River City Music

Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:30

Greetings from Disciples Today and River City Music!

We would like to invite you to take a brief survey about a new songbook supplement to Songs of the Kingdom. It should take about 5 minutes.

In order to reach a large population, we have distributed this survey through several outlets. If this invitation is a duplicate and you've already taken the survey, please except our heartfelt "Thank You" for being along for the ride.

River City Music is planning to publish a book of new songs to supplement Songs of the Kingdom and other existing worship resources. Before we go to print, we want to understand your church's level of interest in this product. Your candid answers will help us determine how we can best provide new worship music to ICOC churches and other Christian congregations that love singing four-part harmony. Since worship singing is such an important part of our collective experience, your commitment of the next 5 minutes is time well spent! Thank You!

LINK TO SURVEY: Songs of the Kingdom Supplement Survey

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND (optional reading!)
River City Music is a music publishing company owned by J. Brian Craig, Geoff Fawcett and Sherwin Mackintosh. Our mission is to publish Christian worship songs in contemporary styles that work with voices-only or added accompaniment. We license songs written by members of ICOC and other like-minded fellowships, making them available in print and digital formats.

Songs of the Kingdom has been the songbook of International Churches of Christ since the 1980s. It has supported our rich heritage of 4-part worship singing and has provided a sense of common ground in fellowships across the globe. The publishers of the songbook (the Boston congregation, ICOC and DPI) made sure to include songs written within our membership – great songs like I Hear God Singing, Be With Me Lord, Hallelujah, and many others. These songs have enabled us to sing together about our experience of the Christian life.

In the last decade, some of our churches have added more guitar and keyboard accompaniment, worship bands, lyrics projection and songs from the Contemporary Christian Music industry. The Internet has also made it possible to deliver songs more rapidly. Our challenge is how to use all that is available to keep great Christian worship singing as part of our culture.

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